Cato And Argos Top Gargiulo And Stamps

It was Dartmouth North of the Border last evening as defensive lineman Derham Cato '05 and his Toronto Argonauts took the measure of defensive end Anthony Gargiulo '06 and his Calgary Stampeders, 48-15, at the Roger's Centre. ... Cato was listed with one tackle for the Argos (2-1). Gargiulo, who missed last week's game with a nasty swollen knee, was listed with two tackles, one sack and one forced fumble while knocking Toronto QB Michael Bishop out of the game as the Stamps fell to 1-2. Find the stats here. ... There are game stories mentioning Gargiulo's goal-line tackle that sent Bishop to the sidelines here and here. ... Missed this the first time around, but there's a small photo of Gargiulo tackling the QB in the Calgary opener two weeks ago on this page. ...

(An aside: We've got end zone seats -- the only tickets available -- for the Stampeders' game at Montreal next month. Should be fun.)

Another interesting story in The D, this time about summer workouts for sophomores on campus. There's not much about football in the story, but this excerpt says it all:

While many sports scale back workouts for the summer, the football team has taken the opposite approach. Instead of taking more time off, they have increased the volume of individual and team training.

“We are lifting four days a week and running five days a week,” running back Milan Williams ‘09 said. “This is making me get in the best shape of my life. I am pretty sure no one on our team has trained like this before.”

The official 2007 Brown football outlook has been posted here. ... Phil Steele's football magazine has picked Holy Cross as No. 25 in the nation. There's a note here. ...

Former Dartmouth sports information director Jack DeGange sent along the following note in response to yesterday's posting about Mike Slive:

Yesterday, Mike Slive, commissioner of Southeastern Conference and Dartmouth '62, was announced as chair of NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Committee for 2008-09.

He will be fourth chair of this committee with Dartmouth connections:

Dave Gavitt '59 was chair in 1982-84. Gavitt played (1957-59) and coached (1967-69) basketball at Dartmouth.

Gary Walters (now Princeton AD) was chair in 2006-07. Walters was Gavitt's freshman coach at Dartmouth in 1968-69, Dartmouth's head coach from 1975-79.

Tom O'Connor (now AD at George Mason), will be chair this year (2007-08). O'Connor was assistant coach at Dartmouth (1969-72) under George Blaney (Gavitt's successor) and Blaney's successor as head coach from 1972-74.

Mike Slive was a three-year letterwinner in lacross at Dartmouth, played for Whitey Burnham. He was also assistant AD at Dartmouth in 1968-69.

Common denominator: Gavitt, Walters, O'Connor and Slive were all hired to their positions at Dartmouth by Seaver Peters, the director of athletics from 1967-83.

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